[sbe-discussion] Re: some more errata

[stephane ducasse]

Yes I missed that it was about an expression.

You send a message, and **execute** a method associate with the message.
I hate the notion of evaluation because after people come and say that  
smalltlak
is slwo because this is evaluated.


An Old Lisper


On Apr 1, 2008, at 8:48 PM, Oscar Nierstrasz wrote:

>
> Yes, absolutely this should be fixed.
>
> I tried to catch and fix as many instances of "invoking a method" as I
> could, and correct them to "sending a message", but of course you
> "evaluate" an expression, you don't "send" it.
>
> Terminology is important!
>
> - on
>
> On Apr 1, 2008, at 19:27, Damien Pollet wrote:
>> On 1 avr. 08, at 18:24, stephane ducasse wrote:
>>> I would prefer not to change sent to evaluated.
>>>
>> it makes sense though... evaluating an expression sends messages, but
>> you never send expressions.
>>
>>>>
>>>>  In order to help you identify the receiver of a message, we will
>>>> underline
>>>> it for you. We will also surround each expression with an ellipse
>>>> and
>>>> number expressions starting from the first one that will be sent to
>>>> help you
>>>> see the order in which messages are sent.
>>>> Figure 4.2 represents two message sends, Color yellow and aMorph
>>>> color:
>>>> Color yellow, hence there are two ellipses. The expression Color
>>>> yellow is sent
>>>> first so its ellipse is numbered 1. There are two receivers: aMorph
>>>> which
>>>> receives the message color: ... and Color which receives the  
>>>> message
>>>> yellow.
>>>>
>>>> suggestion:
>>>>
>>>> replace the word sent with evaluated
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Chris
>>>>
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